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Retro 90210 Thread
My 1990’s Story …
I’ve been a member of this board for sometime and have adopted a temporary screen name for a little anonymity. I attended a small Midwestern university in the 1990s. I’ll be honest with the descriptions but if you somehow figure out where I went, who I am or what groups I am describing, please keep it to yourself. I’m going to use initials of the girls I met during rush and old school 90210 character names for the sororities since the ages of the original 90210 characters closely mimics my own.
In high school, I had a part-time job and was active in speech and debate. I hung out with the academic set and looking back, wasn’t nearly as involved in high school as I should have been. Although I took placement tests as a junior, I didn’t really begin to think about college until my senior year in high school so going through rush didn’t even enter my mind until about two weeks before the start of classes. Luckily for me, recruitment at my university was not at all competitive so being naive and not knowing anything about Greek life was not a disadvantage.
I choose my university the fall of my senior year primarily because I didn’t really know anyone else who was going there. I had a sister and brother that attended a different state university 10-15 years earlier and being the youngest by 12 years, I wanted to do something different and new. I saw this as an opportunity to start from scratch. I choose to rush so that I could meet new people, get involved on campus, and have a family away from home.
Freshmen moved into the dorms a few days before the upperclassmen so that they could attend orientation meetings and learn a bit about the university and surrounding community. I remember later thinking how as freshmen we created these temporary friendships for the first few weeks of college and how they just kind of faded away once we found our niche at the university. I guess it was just a survival type of technique for those of us living away from home for the first time. Anyway … during orientation, I met up with a girl that I was acquainted with in high school along with a few other freshmen on my floor that were going through rush.
I knew JT in high school, she was also very tall and did some speech and debate but hung out with a different crowd. We shared some mutual friends and went to a few of the same parties but were never really close. JT was a bit more outgoing and could probably fit well into Greek life but she also had a tendency to be a bit dramatic which could rub people the wrong way. JT lived in the all girls dorm next door. I lived in the co-ed dorm where the top two floors were women only with the bottom floors being all-guys. On my floor there were two very BLONDE girls rooming together who were also going through rush. For the longest time, I couldn’t tell if they were related or just really good friends. I later found out that the BLONDEs were just assigned to each other and really hit it off. They were pretty, very talkative and seemed like they would fit in as a typical sorority girl. I wasn’t so lucky with my assigned roommate. She was even quieter than me, had a really weird and kind of gross boyfriend and was definitely more of the anti-Greek variety. I purposely didn’t spend much time in my room for the first semester and because my roommate’s grades left a lot to be desired, the university suggested that she not return in the spring.
Next up … Recruitment Begins!
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